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Inventor Part Modeling – Sketch, Work Features, and Best Practices

Sketches and constraints are one of the most important aspects of your Inventor model. A good and well-defined sketch is of paramount importance in ensuring that your model is stable and can be easily edited with design updates or changes with equations and parameters.

A sketch, or your model in this instance, is very much like the skeleton of an organism; if the sketch is not strong, lacks clear definitions, or is overly complex, the rest of the body has issues and problems. You should already have a reasonably good understanding of the basics of sketch geometry in Inventor and already know the fundamentals, but as they are so critical to successful CAD design, it is always ...

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